Is there a big difference for a beginner in Richter's books (CLR via c#).Net 2.0 and 4.5?

Question

Books

What is the point? A friend has a book (Richter J. Clr via c# .No framework 2.0), but won't it be difficult for me later with .Net 4.5? True, I know how no-s differ, but the internal skeleton of the CLR is important to me, so I ask, are the basic principles of the CLR described in the same way in different publications?

Answer 1

Of the fundamentally new things in .NET 4.5 since then, only asynchrony has appeared. Well, and Linq. You can safely read the book on .NET 2.0 - just take the chapters on multi-threaded applications as theory, and not as a guide to action.

Answer 2

And I would rather say that it's not so much 4.5 and 2.0, but 4.0 and 2.0, because 4.0 has a new CLR and Richter talks about it. There are no cardinal differences, but there are still some. In principle, now you can really safely read 4.5, since it is modern and for the current development.